Qian Hongmei advised, "Sister-in-law, it's like this when you're married. You can't live like a girl at home anymore. Once you're at your husband's place, you have to live according to how your in-laws want. You should be open-minded. Isn't it just doing more housework? Look at the girls who got married from our village—who among them doesn't need to earn work points in the fields and still do housework at home, taking care of the whole family? Everyone lives like this. You're just doing some housework without having to earn work points in the fields. You're already luckier than many others, sister-in-law. You should be content."
But Ma Xiangling was not content.
In the family, among the three sisters-in-law, the oldest and the third do no housework at all, even the clothes are washed by her. Why is that? They're not paying her.
She's not eating and drinking on their behalf.
Why should she be the maid for the whole family?
Ma Xiangling felt furious and deeply dissatisfied.
